Sailboats and Trains

My childhood was perfect
 Paradise lost
 Now, one is driven forward into the future by the storm
 Sailing out of paradise
 My father was a traveling performer with
 A love circus of excessive unfortunates
 Fortune tellers, dope fiends, and contortionists
 That left me in Babylon where I was forced to live
 On table scraps at the orphanage
 I ran in the house and God closed the doors and hid
 Confessed sins, evangelists say the Lord forgives
 Seems right
 You created me in your image
 Kick, scream, blaspheme
 Last seen grappling
 With strange beings in bad dreams
 That grow scales and bat wings
 Sleep walker, sweep Eloise off her feet, sweet talk her
 But keep your eyes peeled for thought police
 Slow creeping down forgotten
 Got the streets watching
 He's obsolete like floppy disks and beat-boxing
 I believe still, I never stopped believing
 I could see him even when the mushrooms were out of season
 So we could let the swine roast on the spit
 That don't believe in anything they can't poke with a stick
 They don't know about the monsters that patrol the abyss
 They don't know that Mr. One Zero's dope as it gets
 All your product's stepped on and your jewelry's fake
 You got bass, I got uncut Peruvian flake
 One taste test will take you to the next level
 And apex to cloud ten without having to spend several pay checks
 Today's blessed
 I'm feeling great
 Like I could walk barefoot through a field of snakes
 You treat my love like a five dollar milkshake
 And I'm a snap and knock the taste out your grill cake
 Blau
 I put my mean face on
 I feel safe now
 Walk center stage and take a bow
 Walk through a field of snakes
 Bruise every head
 Shake the foundation
 Wake up the dead
 I recall a time when all the stars aligned
 Symbols on the walls and shrines
 Of a solemn altered mind
 I was younger then
 Young and unafraid, unfazed
 Unaware of pitfalls that you face when you come of age
 With grandiose, lofty ideals and diatribes
 They take God out your chest and place him in the sky
 Preach uniformity, perpetuate lies
 But can't obstruct what I see with my mind's eye
 I spy Cane and Abel perched on a man's shoulders
 With birds of paradise and ravens overhead
 He fragments into infinite heavens and hells
 Pulling fish out the open ocean with a golden thread
 I comb the depths for pearls every night when I go to bed
 And wake up empty handed sometimes, but know the ledge
 We've been sewn falsehoods
 We've been misled
 Shake the foundation
 Wake up the dead
 Today's blessed
 I'm feeling great
 Like I could walk barefoot through a field of snakes
 You treat my love like a five dollar milkshake
 And I'm a snap and knock the taste out your grill cake
 Blau
 I put my mean face on
 I feel safe now
 Walk center stage and take a bow
 Walk through a field of snakes
 Bruise every head
 Shake the foundation
 Wake up
 In what seems like the dead of winter
 Beneath the protecting mantle of ice
 Forces from far away galaxies
 And from deep in the Earth
 Are joined in the creation of new life